This week in forum we discussed blogging and whether it represents the democratisation of the internet or not. We also talked about our use of blogging in the music technology courses.
After Steven explained some useful terms for the discussion eg "bloggorrhea", "blogademia, "blog fodder" in a very convincingly serious tone we began to discuss blogs and youtube etc (which I think are essentially the same for the purposes of this discussion).
It was raised that as the amount of information on the internet increases, then the value of the information decreases as the supply becomes so great compared to the demand. This is related to the idea that the internet is communist in that it allows small players with little wealth/influence but good ideas to compete equally with larger players in providing this information, entertainment and services. Christian suggested that this isn't valid because what is important is how the information is found ie with search engines which a webpage can be optimized for. I agree that there are ways that established forces can maintain their influence using their financial advantage, however I do think that in some cases the internet evens the balance of power between individual and corporate machine.
Edited on 4/4/08 to conform (exactly!) to the word limit policy
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